Combined chair and desk.



F. A. SCHLANGER.

COMBINED CHAIR AND DESK.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 17. 1914.

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FREDERICK A. SCI-ILANGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED CHAIR AND DESK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1917..

Application'filed September 17, 1914. Serial No. 862,205.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK A. SoHLANeER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of New York, county and State of New York, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combined Chairs andDesks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates more particularly to a class of furniture and hasfor its object primarily to provide a combined chair and desk adapted tobe used especially in public places and the like whereby a person mayconveniently write, or read, etc, While resting comfortably withoutrequiring the pro vision of separate articles of furniture,'and whereinis employed a desk adjustably connected to a chair so as to be capableof being swung to various positions to and from the front of the chair,the desk being composed of two superposed leaf members one of which isadapted to be elevated relatively to the other to different inclinedpositions so as to meet the requirements of the occupant of the chair.

Another object of the invention is to provide on the swinging leafmembers of the desk means serving to adjustably retain the leaf memberswhen in adjusted positions; and a further object of the invention is toprovide a combined chair and desk of simple and efficient construct-ion,and which is susceptible of being made in various sizes and designs.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts ininvention being more fully described hereinafter, and then pointed outin the claim at the end of the description.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of combinedchair and desk embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan thereof.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the desk used in conjunctionwith the chair, and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged end view of the desk.

The combined chair and desk, includes a chair, as 10, which may be ofany well-known as well as being of any desired shape and size. To theunderside of the seat 11 of the chair 10 is swiveled, at 12, one end ofa swinging supporting member, or bracket 13 type all the views, the saidwhich is composed of three right-angularly disposed arms 14;, 15, 16,the arm 15 standing vertically, while the arms 14 and 16 extendhorizontally, and stand at, or nearly at, a right angle to one another,in a horizontal plane, so that while the arm 14- extends from the lowerend of the arm 15 below and toward the center of the seat of the chair,the arm 16 extends from the upper end of the arm 15 alongside of thechair and maintains approximately this relative position, whatever theradial direction of the arm 14 from the center of the seat. The normalposition of the arms is shown in Fig. 1 and in full lines in Fig. 2, thearm 14 extending in a rearward direction, so that arm 15 extendsupwardly approximately beside one of the rear legs of the chair, and arm16, which is crooked slightly, as indicated in Fig. 2, to give it ashape conforming more particularly to the shape of the chair, extendsforwardly beside the chair to suitably carry a desk. The upper arm 16 ofthe bracket will then extend longitudinally toward the front of thechair, and this arm is spaced sufficiently above the arm 14 of thebracket whereby it will be a suitable distance above the seat of thechair. The upper arm 16 of the bracket is also of a length so that whenthe bracket is swung on the swivel 12 of the chair oppositely to itsnormal position, as will be hereinafter more fully explained, theforward end of the upper arm will be placed at suitable positionsrelatively to the front of the seat of the chair.

At the free end of the upper arm 16 of the swinging bracket 13 isprovided aswivel, as 17, of the usual, or any preferred form, and tothis swivel is secured the underside of a desk 18 so as to behorizontally rotatable relative to its support. The desk 18 has twosuperposed leaf members 19 and 20 which are preferably substantiallyrectangular in shape, and one of the corresponding ends of these leafmembers are hinged together, at 21, so that the upper leaf member maybeelevated on an incline relatively to the lower leaf member whereby thedesk may be adjusted for convenient use by the occupant of the chair.

Serving to hold the upper leaf member 20 of the desk against movementwhen in an adjusted position, I provide a retaining device, as 22. Theretaining device 22 may have one, or two alined toothed racks, or bars,as 23 and 24, projecting upwardly in spaced parallel arrangement fromthe top surface of the lower leaf member 19 of the desk, and bothofthese racks extend longitudinally of this leaf member. To theunderside of the upper leaf member 20 adj acent to its end which isopposite to the hinge 21 is pivoted by H of Spaced straps, as 25 and 26,the upper cross-arm 27 of a substantially square hoopshaped supportingmember, or bar 28 having a lower cross-arm 29. The supporting bar 29 isadapted to be swung between the leaf members of the desk to and from thehinge 21 for engaging the teeth of the racks 23 and 24, and to permitthe supporting bar to be manually adjusted in this manner from thecentral'part of the upper cross-arm 27 thereof is a finger 30 extendingat a right angle from the bar outwardly of the free end of the upperleaf member 20 of the desk.

When it 'is desired to use the desk for writing, reading, or otherpurposes by the person occupying the chair by guiding the deskaccordingly it will be rotatably moved on the swivel 17 to a suitableposition at the side of the chair, or the desk and the supportingbracket 13 may both be swung in unison on the swivel 12 as well as onthe swivel 17 to a desired position in front of the chair, as shown inFig. 2 in dotted lines. .heupper leaf member 20 of the desk may then beelevated on an incline relatively to the lower leaf member 19, and bymoving the finger 30 of the swinging bar 28 this bar may be adjusted soas to engage the proper teeth of the racks 23 and 24-. to retain theupper leaf member in its adjusted position. When the desk is not in use,or if desired to employ it, for instance as a table, the upper leaf ofthe desk may be lowered to lie fiat over the lower leaf by moving thefinger 30 so as to swing the bar underneath the leaf 20 of the desk,this leaf having in its underside a recess, as 31, for reception of thebar 28 and the racks 23 and Copies of this patent may be obtained forupwardly- 24: when the leaves of the desk are closed together. Moreover,the upper leaf 20 of the desk may be fashioned so as to accommodate anink well, pens, or pencils, if desired.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of myinvention, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting my selfthereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein withoutdepartingfrom the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages ofthis invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make suchchanges as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent In a combined desk andchair, the combination with achair seat of a U-shaped bracket having one end thereof pivotallymounted on the under side of said seat, and a desk pivotally mounted onthe free of said bracket; said desk comprising upper and lower leaveshingedly connected together at one edge thereof, racks on the upper faceof the lower leaf, spaced straps on the under side of the upper leaf, asquare hoop-shaped supporting member having one side portion thereofswingably connected to the said straps and having its opposite sideportion adapted'to engage the said rac s to determine the degreeofelevation of said upper leaf, and a finger rigidly attached to thehinged portion of said supporting member between the said straps andprojecting beyond the outer edge of the said upper leaf whereby it maybe manually operated for manipulating the said supporting member.

This specification signed and witnessed this sixteenth day of September,A. I). 1914.

FREDERICK A. SCHLANGER. WVitnesses:

ROBT. B. ABBOTT, M. DEeRMoDY.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. 0.

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